$2,500 A Week For Life is one of the Florida Lottery's $5 games. Its expected return of $0.69 per $1 sits $0.03 below the typical $5 ticket in Florida. Its ValueScore of 29/100 (Below Avg) makes it 23rd out of 26 $5 tickets in Florida.
Should I Buy This Ticket?
- Top-prize odds have improved: 1 in 7.8M at launch, about 1 in 5.0M now. Tickets have sold faster than the $1,949,000 prizes have been claimed.
- Expected value of $0.69 per $1 is about average, a typical return for a ticket at this price.
- Most of this game's prizes are gone.
Current Prize Odds
ScratchCheck estimate · Updated October 14Prize Breakdown
| Prize | Odds | Total | Left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,949,000 ($2,500 a week for life ($1,949,000 cash option)) | 1 in 7,760,595 | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| $10,000 | 1 in 388,030 | 80 | 12 | 15% |
| $2,000 | 1 in 59,468 | 522 | 77 | 15% |
| $1,000 | 1 in 9,998 | 3,105 | 462 | 15% |
| $500 | 1 in 2,397 | 12,948 | 1,812 | 14% |
| $100 | 1 in 240 | 129,282 | 18,923 | 15% |
| $50 | 1 in 240 | 129,535 | 18,805 | 15% |
| $30 | 1 in 193 | 160,431 | 23,050 | 14% |
| $25 | 1 in 195 | 159,145 | 22,822 | 14% |
| $20 | 1 in 60 | 517,373 | 77,096 | 15% |
| $10 | 1 in 9 | 3,621,610 | 561,142 | 15% |
| $5 | 1 in 10 | 3,104,292 | 548,032 | 18% |
Prize Pool Analysis
Ticket Statistics
Prize History
Top prizes left
The one $1,949,000 top prize left on August 8, when our records for it began, is still unclaimed.
How fast it's selling
Over the last 4 weeks, about 0.2% of this game's prizes were reported claimed each week, slower than the average for Florida's $5 games (0.5% a week).
From ScratchCheck's daily record of the lottery's published prize counts. Dates are when a claim first appeared in those counts, and small prizes are often cashed days after purchase, so claims trail actual sales.
ValueScore™ Breakdown
Game Details
- State
- Florida
- Game Number
- 1600
- Ticket Price
- $5
- Start Date
- 7/1/2025
- Payout %
- 69.4%
- Data Source
- Official
- Last Updated
- 10/14/2026
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All 26 ranked →| Game | ValueScore | Odds | Payout | Top prize · left | Claimed per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Pearls | 67 | 1 in 3.93 | 73.1% | $1M · 3 | 6.4% |
| GIANT BUCKS | 63 | 1 in 3.75 | 70.3% | $1M · 3 | 1.2% |
| 50X THE CASH | 57 | 1 in 3.81 | 71.1% | $1M · 7 | 0.5% |
| POWER 20X | 56 | 1 in 3.91 | 72.5% | $1M · 2 | 4.2% |
| Jeopardy! | 55 | 1 in 3.86 | 73.6% | $1M · 4 | 0.0% |
| America 250 Florida | 54 | 1 in 4.01 | 72.3% | $1M · 2 | 0.6% |
| The Price is Right™ | 48 | 1 in 4.00 | 72.8% | $1M · 4 | 0.1% |
| Silver & Gold Crossword | 47 | 1 in 3.89 | 70.4% | $500K · 2 | 1.2% |
| $1,000,000 Cash Stacks | 45 | 1 in 3.95 | 72.6% | $1M · 1 | 1.8% |
| $2,500 A Week For Life (this game) | 29 | 1 in 3.96 | 69.4% | $1.9M · 1 | 0.2% |
Claimed per week: share of each game's printed prizes reported claimed per week over the last 4 weeks, from our daily records of the lottery's prize counts.